Manga Thoughts: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 4

It actually happened: Dark Horse translated and published the fourth volume of Sumito Oowara’s Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! manga and, as the blurb on the back cover proclaims, we’re seeing where the original story went after the anime adaptation left off. I suppose this might be more a matter of “it’s nice to get to hang around with these offbeat creators for another story arc” than “we can’t just be left hanging!” That in turn, though, does leave me wondering if I can say anything more profound than just summarizing the new dose of plot.
( Something worth giving up buried treasure for )

Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1969

In putting black-and-white anime behind me for the second time and for good at least so far as this whistle-stop tour’s been planned, I am able to think back and suppose the series I sampled for the first time turned out more interesting than “I made it through half an hour; that’s another box ticked off.” In moving on to a series in colour I’ve already seen before but which is the only one from its year I have access to (and it’s just about in “its year” and that year’s decade by courtesy again, having premiered in December), I am returning to something that quite impressed me over its length and let me jump to certain conclusions. “Anime features teenagers because they’re its theoretical audience” is one thing; when those teenagers happen to spend most of their time in Japanese high schools that can irk English-language fans; Attack No. 1 happening to be set in “real world” secondary education gave me a sense some significant part of “anime as we know it” had snapped into place earlier than I’d known.
( “But sometimes I cry. I’m a girl, you know.” )